Quick TakeSharding refers to the splitting of computational load and data storage into smaller pieces and has been touted as a potential blockchain scaling solution Despite the immense challenges of implementing sharding, it has the potential to overcome the blockchain trilemmaOnly a handful of protocols utilize sharding as a scaling mechanism to date, for instance, Zilliqa and NEAREthereum 2.0 is targeting to utilize sharding as a scaling solution by Q2 2022